Natan Sharansky: The Real Russia Problem
Solomonia (Free subscription) | 15/09/2008
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Natan Sharansky: The real Russia problem
Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 16/09/2008
As the free world tries to formulate an effective response to Russia's recent incursion into Georgia, the focus understandably remains on how to ensure the withdrawal of troops from Russia's democratic southern neighbor. But policy-makers might want to consider for a moment how we got to this point.
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Links from our commenters 1: New book by Sharansky
Elder of Ziyon (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
Lynne T. links to a fascinating review of a new book by Natan Sharansky called "Defending Identity: Its Indispensable Role in Protecting Democracy" in which he makes what seems like the counterintuitive claim that democracy without nationalism is a weaker democracy. I'd probably need to read it to understand it fully but some of the tidbits mentioned are most interesting. I especially...
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Hillary Clinton, Colin Powell and Others Honor Elie Wiesel
92Y Blog (Free subscription) | 26/09/2008
Please be patient while the video loads. In the video above, watch excerpts of Senator Hillary Clinton, Ambassador Richard Holbrooke, actor Jon Voight, French philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy, General Colin Powell and Russian Israeli political figure Natan Sharansky paying their respects to Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Wiesel in honor of his 80th Birthday. Many more are slated for October...
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Identity deficit
Cross-Currents (Free subscription) | 21/09/2008
In his new book Defending Identity, Natan Sharansky once again mines his nine years in Soviet prisons for crucial insights on the major issues of the day. Defending Identity complements and enriches Sharansky’s previous work The Case for Democracy. The two works draw on different aspects of the political activism that led to Sharansky’s [...]
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Fair Diehl
Yourish.com (Free subscription) | 22/09/2008
... they’re reformers.) But now he’s listening to someone else in “ Peace from the Bottom Up .” Natan Sharansky and Bassam Eid have been suggesting something different. The timeline for success would be measured in years, not months. The goal would not be a document that Livni and Abbas could sign but the construction of a healthy and vibrant Palestinian civil society — that is, independent...
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Thoughts for Elul
Cross-Currents (Free subscription) | 17/09/2008
In Elul, we each have to search for inspiration – an idea to focus on, a model to which we can aspire – wherever we can. Anything that wakes us up, scares us a bit, makes us think about the approaching judgment and must be grabbed. In his newest book Defending Identity, Natan Sharansky [...]
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Shimmysham, the Liberal Elite Media Dummy
Lone Star Times (Free subscription) | 19/09/2008
Defending Identity: Its Indispensable Role in Protecting Democracyby Natan Sharansky Fear No Evilby Natan Sharansky The Case For Democracy: The Power of Freedom to Overcome Tyranny and Terrorby Anatoly Shcharansky The Jewish State: The Struggle for Israel's Soulby Yoram Hazony Bobos in Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got Thereby David Brooks Snobbery: The American...
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Connect the dots: internal freedom, external aggression
Boker tov, Boulder! (Free subscription) | 15/09/2008
Natan Sharansky in Sunday's Washington Post: The situation in Georgia is the culmination of a failed post-Cold War policy toward Russia. Central to this failure has been ignoring the inherent connection between internal freedom and external aggression. As democracy was rolled back within Russia, the world abandoned an approach that had been so effective during the later stages of the...
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Regime change for Russia?
A Step At A Time (Free subscription) | 14/09/2008
Writing in the Washington Post, ex-Soviet dissident and strategic studies analyst Natan Sharansky suggests that the “real Russia problem” is a fundamental lack of democracy within the Russian state, and the West’s failure to implement an effective post-Cold War policy in the light of this. The West has not made the inherent connection between internal [...]
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Post-Ike Open Comments Thread
Lone Star Times (Free subscription) | 15/09/2008
Defending Identity: Its Indispensable Role in Protecting Democracyby Natan Sharansky Fear No Evilby Natan Sharansky The Case For Democracy: The Power of Freedom to Overcome Tyranny and Terrorby Anatoly Shcharansky The Jewish State: The Struggle for Israel's Soulby Yoram Hazony Bobos in Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got Thereby David Brooks Snobbery: The American...
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LST fires up GigaDoppler Live24 StormWatch SuperCenter
Lone Star Times (Free subscription) | 12/09/2008
... trip Loading ...LST Book Club Defending Identity: Its Indispensable Role in Protecting Democracyby Natan Sharansky Fear No Evilby Natan Sharansky The Case For Democracy: The Power of Freedom to Overcome Tyranny and Terrorby Anatoly Shcharansky The Jewish State: The Struggle for Israel's Soulby Yoram Hazony Bobos in Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got Thereby...
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A New “Cold War” Looms
redstatesusa (Free subscription) | 28/08/2008
... indefinitely with no substance to bolster them. From the inside, courageous figures such as Natan Sharansky and Alexander Solzhenitsyn unmasked the horror and oppression behind the utopian assertions of a communist world. And despite some brief surges in Soviet technology as epitomized by the October 4, 1957 launch of Sputnik 1, the world’s first artificial satellite, the inherent...
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A New “Cold War” Looms
MND/BlogWonks: Your Alternate Daily (Free subscription) | 28/08/2008
... indefinitely with no substance to bolster them. From the inside, courageous figures such as Natan Sharansky and Alexander Solzhenitsyn unmasked the horror and oppression behind the utopian assertions of a communist world. And despite some brief surges in Soviet technology as epitomized by the October 4, 1957 launch of Sputnik 1, the world’s first artificial satellite, the inherent...
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Wooing the Jews
Yourish.com (Free subscription) | 22/08/2008
... Council is working to fight the smears at its blog: Earlier this month JTA reported that, “Natan Sharansky said an Obama presidency would be a ‘risk’ to Israel.” This is a continuation of the fear and smear campaign against Senator Barack Obama being perpetrated by many of Senator John McCain’s supporters. Trashing the most famous prisoner of conscience. Good thinking. The DNC points...
